Ionic materials could achieve 50% higher energy density while costing less than $100 per kwh

Arxiv – Observation of the Meissner effect at room temperature in single-layer graphene brought into contact with alkanes

next generation of explorers...(Natural News) Aside from having to adjust to an environment that's vastly different from Earth's, future explorers will have to learn how to grow their own food so they can have access to vegetables while they're

Lockheed is 3D printing titanum fuel tank for Lockheed Martin's largest satellites. Using this manufacturing method, tank delivery time went down from two years to three months (nine times faster) and they are no longer wasting 80% of the materials

"RF-Pose" isn't X-ray vision, but it's getting there.

Within 4-5 years Made In Space believes their Archinaut space manufacturing robot and manufacturing mini factory will be making large structures like trusses and reflectors in space.

Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is trying to leverage research on solid-state batteries for electric cars.

The world's first trillionaire won't come from cryptocurrency or some clever new app – he or she will become rich from asteroid mining.

Airloys™ are a new class of mechanically robust aerogels with the strength to stand up to real-world applications. In this video, classic silica aerogel is compared with a new material called Airloy X100 which has the low density and superinsulatin

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce high quality graphene at a commercial scale.

Most batteries are made up of a cathode on one side and an anode on the other, with a nonconducting separator between them.

Graphene spends most of its time in a two-dimensional form, but that makes it hard to make use of its long list of advantages, like its strength, light weight, and electricity and heat conduction.

Rocket Labs is also trying to 3D print rockets. Relativity Space is making a rocket that has 4 times the thrust of the Rocket Labs rocket. Relativity rocket engine will still have ten times less thrust than the SpaceX merlin engine.

Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, light and tough

By: Markab Algedi / The Mind Unleashed Melbourne, Australia is now the city that contains the world's largest known 3D printer. Melbourne based manufacturer Titomic recently displayed their accomplishment by printing a large metal rendering of th

Spider silk has long held the title of strongest natural biomaterial, so scientists have been trying to harness it, mimic it and even improve on the recipe for years.

French company NAWA Technologies claims that its ultracapacitor technology could help improve performance/range of electric vehicles.

Hydrogels have shown significant potential in everything from wound dressings to soft robots, but their applications have been limited from their lack of toughness – until now.

A startup with alumni from MIT and Yale says it's made a breakthrough in creating a next-generation material that should make it possible to 3-d print literally anything out of thin air.

MIT has combined a roll-to-roll approach -- a common industrial approach for continuous processing of thin foils -- with the common graphene-fabrication technique of chemical vapor deposition, to manufacture high-quality graphene in large quantitie

Among the almost limitless use cases for commercial-scale graphene is filtration. MIT engineers say they've now developed a scalable production process for precisely tailored graphene filtration membranes, which could see action in desalination, biol

If there's one thing motorcyclists want more of in their lives, it's carbon fiber.

NuScale Power small modular reactor (SMR) will be able generate 20 percent more power than originally planned. Advanced testing and modeling tools helped NuScale identify optimization and increased power generation.

SpaceX is going all-in on building in-house its own satellite constellation.

Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period.

Amanda D. Hanford, at Pennsylvania State University, is taking the introductory steps to make acoustic ground cloaks. These materials redirect approaching waves around an object without scattering the wave senergy, concealing the object from the soun

A NASA space telescope called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has been used to develop a brand new technology with near-term, practical applications: a galactic positioning system.

Centauri Dreams discusses the NASA NIAC Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions project.

Deep below the mountain of Gran Sasso in central Italy, under nearly a mile of solid rock, the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, and Italian for "heart") experiment is underway to help us understand one of astrophysics's great

Centauri Dreams has a published paper by Gregory Matloff who has written extensively on Interstellar Travel and solar sails.

The Vasimr rocket is on track to a 100-hour continuous firing this summer of the company's VX200SSTM VASIMR® prototype at a power level of 100 kW.

There was a 2016-2017 Kickstarter for Antimatter fuel production.

Using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab.

Graphene hogs all the headlines about two-dimensional materials, but it might just be the beginning.

The glass we're most familiar with is made from silicon dioxide, but materials like boron, polymers and metals have also been used.

Horne Technologies is developing an inertial electrostatic nuclear fusion system. They claim to have the world's first superconducting, high-beta plasma research device in operation.

Nestled in between satellites and drones are autonomous aerial vehicles known as High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS), which can soar at the edges of space for long periods of time, acting as telecommunications relays or environmental monitors.

If you're struggling to do business or just live under your country's administration, a movement of philanthropists, academics and investors is working on a very sci-fi alternative.

Microsoft is leading the development of topological quantum computing which it claims is far less error-prone than rival quantum computing approaches.

The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, which already has a dramatic under-the-sea restaurant, has announced plans to create the world's first luxurious underwater villa of its kind. Dubbed The Muraka (which means coral), the under-the-sea residence will

Our best guess for what it would take to get to planets that are really, really far away.

Tesla Model 3 production can only go as fast as the slowest part of the entire supply chain and production process. For months, the battery module line was their main production bottleneck.

Incidents near Beijing's Djibouti military base injured American air crews flying nearby

What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX's race to put people into orbit and th

To us living our lives on the macroscale, the tiny world of quantum mechanics seems weird and nonsensical.

A thruster that takes in the few air molecules in space and accelerates them for thrust could allow satellites to fly for years longer.

Graphene, the "wonder material" composed of a one-atom-thick sheet of linked carbon atoms, is the world's strongest manmade material. Now, scientists have used it to create a new type of concrete that is much stronger, water-resistant and eco-friendl

Sila Nanotechnologies has silicon-dominant anode products that drop into existing battery manufacturing processes, replace graphite entirely, and deliver significantly higher energy density at the cell-level with lower swelling.

Anish Tuteja, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and his research group have created a omniphobic coating that is both clear and durable and repels all liquids.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery.